Re: Bug#34579: Removing ncsa from the dist?
On Sun, 16 May 1999, Richard Braakman wrote:
> It's probably a good idea to make an announcment if a package is about
> to be dropped, so that others have a chance to maintain it. This would
> of course include any prior maintainers. But if the package's maintainer
> thinks it should be removed, and no-one else volunteers to maintain it,
> then I don't think anyone should be able to say "No, let it sit there
> and rot instead".
It needs to be moved into the orphaned section and rot there for awhile.
Dont throw stuff away. I have gotten stuff from there in the past and used
it. It is rather frustrating if you have a new maintainer take over your
package and then you come back to find that its gone completely because he
felt it was useless. Especially frustrating if you dont keep backups of
your developer tree (yes, I confess and I will do it differently...)
because you thought that your stuff will be on the next CD series and
on the ftp sites.
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